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Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)

3 Comments / Total Productive Maintenance / Melvin Vincent

Car photo created by prostooleh – www.freepik.com Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is the average of the run times of a machine, between two failures, for a particular time period. Time period can be one week, one month, one year etc… How to Calculate Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) MTBF is calculated by following formula, […]

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What is Effectiveness

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Let’s discuss what is effectiveness through a simple example. There was an operator and he has given a task of producing 50 products in two hours. And he achieved the target in the given time. In this case we can say that the operator was effective. Two important words related to Effectiveness Task and time

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Rating in Time and Motion study

Leave a Comment / Work Study / Melvin Vincent

This article explains what is rating and how to do rating in time and motion study. This article is related to the article on Direct stopwatch time study, which explains about how to do time study. Ok let’s dive into our subject. What is rating Rating is the one of the steps conducted during time

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How to calculate manpower for preventive maintenance with varying checklist frequency

Leave a Comment / Preventive Maintenance / Melvin Vincent

In this article we will learn about ‘How to calculate manpower for preventive maintenance with varying checklist frequency’. Here I will explain the situation. We have a lot of different types of machines in which preventive maintenance to be done. Each type of machines have different type of activities or checklists and its frequency also

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How to calculate manpower for Preventive Maintenance

1 Comment / Preventive Maintenance / Melvin Vincent

Hi, I am writing this article since I got a request to write an article on ‘How to calculate manpower for Preventive Maintenance’ on request an article page. Ok lets start… Following steps can be followed for calculating manpower for preventive maintenance(pm) team. Step 1 : Clearly define what all are the activities to be

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How to do time study using Time study sheet.

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We have prepared an online time study sheet, for conducting time study easily, accurately, quickly and by anybody. The following instructions are for using time study sheet published in this website. Before starting time study we recommend you to read and study the article on Direct stopwatch time study Click here for Time Study Sheet

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Flow in a manufacturing industry

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A flowing river will be pure than stagnant water, since pure water will be coming into it from the source and contaminated water is replaced with pure water in it. Just reminded the importance of flow. With this example lets move to flow in a manufacturing industry. Let’s start … What is flow Flow is

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Productivity and Efficiency

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Really is there any difference between productivity and efficiency ?, What is productivity?, What is efficiency?, Formula connecting productivity and efficiency, Relationship between productivity and efficiency, Example demonstrating the relation between productivity and efficiency, etc. We will discuss all here in detail. Before we move in to our subject, we need to know more about

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Efficiency

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Efficiency represents how much of the input given to a process/machine is converted to useful output. Importance of Efficiency By calculating efficiency, we can know how much amount of input given to a process is converted to a useful output and how much input is wasted without converting into useful output. This knowledge will helps

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